The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-02-09
.rrHERRoGREssIvE SOUTH.
Facts Showing Fine Prospect for the
People of this Section.
(From The Baltimore SUM-

Facts Showing Fine Prospect for the
People of this Section.
(From The Baltimore SUM-
Long before the movement from the
Northern and Middle States set III, the
Sun repeatedly called attention to the
new field that since the war was opened
at the South for industrial emigratlon
from the States and from abroad. 1t
pointed out its vast underlying wealth
of coal and iron ore, Of limestone and
manganese, It's great deposits of kaolin
and Of copper and gold, to its variety OF
woods for the constructive and decora-
tive purposes, and its thousands OF acres
of fertile soil. At that time only few
cotton factories were in operation, some
kaohn deposits worked, and here and
there south Of Virginia, where coal
mining had long been going on, some
feeble atten,pts made at mining-princl-
pally in Tennessee and Alabama-where
few furnaces had been built Tor the
smelling Of iron ore.
1t had been demonstrated even then
that cotton fabrics of the palmer kind
could be produced at considerably less
cost than st the North, and pig iron LAID
on the bank ready for delivery at S1l
DER ton. Iaesgrsat drawback was the
want of adequate facilities for transpor-
<tatson toa market, but not long after
: wards some enteiprising and clear-sisht-
ed men, ookiHg forward to the future
Development aSsais mineral wealth, took
up considerable, bodies Of land rich IN
coal and non oreSsand waited until the
{ time should cometo utilize them. The
rapid extensiorof railroads throughout
the South supplied the opportunity, and
while the Southern people OF the cotton
belt were increasing the number of then
factories in the vicinity OF the plantations
that produced the raw materlal, Northern
and English capitalists were descending
upon West Virginia. Tennessee and
Alabama, and putting up furnaces, to be
followed by rolling mills, in the midst
of the iron and coal deposits. Slow as
the movement was at first, it has IN
creased with such rapidity that grea:
coke and iron furnaces now line the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Chatta
nooga and Knoxville have now become
hives of busy industry, and new towns,
destined to rival cities Ike Pittsburg,
have been founded in Alabama, which
have been ollristened Birmingham and
Shefield-names famous in England fol
the excellence OF their manufactures OF
:, iron and steel. Birmingham IS now the
seat Of an active iron industry. 1t has
already number Of large furnaces, and
mills for rolling iron and steel are about
to be erected. It contains at this time
some 5000 inhabitants. At Sheffield.
also, furnaces have been built, streets
laid out, houses erected, stores opened.
and population is. focking in. What Is
more important still, cheap iron is at
tracing other industries. One of the
great stove works at Troy, doing the
Largest business Of its kind IN the United
States, IS to be removed, or may already
have, been removed, either to Alabama
or Tennessee. Other trades and manu-
z faetures are following, notably Clark 5
" works, which supplies large part OF the
United States. with cotton thread. The
slna-hles Of Tennessee, for which Knox
vile is the principal market, are getting
sabe mreqness; and so many manufac-
turing enterprises have been established
there that:the population has; increased
from 1900 in 1852 to@over. 10000.
%ChaEsanoosa shows. a SIMILAR increase
sandiwitk a: has come a@speculation IN
building lots on which large profits have
been rapidly made, but which may be
carried too, far unless kept ptwitmo healthy
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